JPOV
I stood there for a couple of minutes letting her words sink in.
"So we can't find the phone? Well that's alright isn't it? We just need the number, right? Edward's number. We'll just ask around, someone will be bound to have it."
Alice shook her head sadly.
"Who? Who would have his old number? He got a new phone a few years after Bella went missing. We all have his new number, not his old one. The only person who might possibly remember his number is him! And he's…dead."
Alice sat down on the bed and put her head in her hands. I sat down next to her and put my arm around her.
"She'll be devastated. She went through so much when Edward died and now she's filled with fresh hope again and to take this away from her…it'll kill her." Alice whispered.
"And Jacob's putting her through even more, making her choose between him and Edward. She'll pick Edward, be really upset and come up here, thinking that despite what happened with Jake, she'll still get Edward back. What can we do?" I added.
"Well first I think we should stop her choosing Edward over Jacob, we don't want her to go through that pain now."
I nodded in agreement and taking her hand, we went downstairs.
Bella was sitting next to Jacob, crying softly. Jake was staring straight ahead. Neither of them were speaking.
Alice coughed and Jake and Bella looked up suddenly, realizing we were there.
"Uh..sorry to interrupt, we just..uh…" I paused, trying to work out what to say. I looked to Alice for help, she widened her eyes slightly.
"What is it Jasper?" Bella asked me. She looked so fragile; I didn't have the heart to tell her.
Alice thankfully took over for me.
"Jacob, Jasper told me what's going on. I don't think you should be forcing her to make this decision right now. You know how much she's been through. It's not very fair."
Jacob jumped up, suddenly furious.
"Fair? Fair? I've put up with her and Edward for so long, knowing that the time will come when she'll recognize that she loves me too! That time came, when I kissed her! And now she wants to forget that? To start over with Edward though she knows now she loves me! How is that fair?"
Bella stood up slowly.
"I'm sorry, Jake. But it's my decision! My life! And yes, I do love you, but I love Edward too. And right now my first priority is to bring him back!" She started to walk to the stairs.
I looked at Alice in panic. She nodded at me, and skipped in front of Bella.
"Uh…why don't we do that later? You should probably rest now, you're still recovering from the accident."
Bella looked shocked.
"You want me to rest? Don't you care about Edward? He's dead! Why should we waste any time in bringing him back? Have you forgotten Edward? Do you care about him that little?"
"Of course I care about him!" Alice yelled back.
"Then move out the way and let me make the phone call!"
"No, you can't!"
"Why not?"
"Because we lost the phone!" Alice yelled.
Silence. Silence. Silence. The silence seemed to stretch forever.
Even Jacob seemed a little subdued.
"You lost the phone?" Bella whispered.
Alice went over to Bella and hugged her tightly.
"I'm sorry, sweetie"
Bella just stood there frozen. She didn't return the hug, she didn't move or say a word. The tears rolled down her face constantly.
Jake walked over to them. Alice glared at him, but he looked so subdued that she moved out the way. He took Bella into his arms and she sobbed softly. He stroked her hair and whispered to her, I couldn't hear what he was saying, but she seemed to be nodding.
I looked over to Alice, and she shrugged slightly.
Then suddenly Bella looked up.
"Can't we find the phone? It must be somewhere!"
"I don't know. I looked everywhere." Alice said.
I saw a glimmer of hope in Bella's eyes, and decided she couldn't take any more disappointment.
"Maybe we could try? Where did you have it last?" I asked Bella.
She closed her eyes, thinking.
"I didn't have it, the night of the accident. I remember looking for it, to call the ambulance but I had left it here."
"Well then it must be somewhere here only."
Bella nodded furiously.
"Let's all spread out and look."
She turned and rushed up the stairs, only stopping briefly to wince in pain.
Alice turned to glare at me.
"I thought we weren't giving her false hope?" She whispered.
I shrugged. "I didn't know what else to do. She looked so vulnerable."
She shook her head in annoyance. I turned to look at Jake. He was just staring into space.
"You alright?"
He looked up.
"I don't know. You guys should probably help her go and look. Tell her that I…I…just tell her whatever. I don't really care." He marched out the door, slamming it shut behind him.
I looked at Alice and she rolled her eyes at me and bounded up the stairs to help Bella. I sighed and followed her. Seemed everyone was mad at me now.
APOV
I walked into Bella's room, where she was emptying the wardrobe, searching through all her clothes in the pockets.
I felt so guilty. The reason they couldn't find the phone was because of me. I had to tell her. I heard Jasper enter the room behind me.
Bella spun around.
"I can't find it anywhere! I know I left it here! I didn't take it with me!"
"Actually you did." I said softly.
Bella frowned. "No I didn't. I remember thinking about it, but I thought there would be no use for it. So I left it on my bedside table, but it's not there now! Where would it have gone?"
"You did take it with you…just not knowingly."
Jasper put his hand on my shoulder. "What are you talking about Alice? What do you mean?"
Bella was looking as confused. I felt so guilty that I couldn't look at her.
"I was in here, cleaning you room on the night of your accident and I saw your phone on the bedside table. I…thought you'd forgotten it here so I rushed downstairs but you'd already got into the car so I gave it to Edward and told him to give it to you, but he must have forgotten. I'm so sorry."
Bella stood there looking at me for a few moments. Jasper took his hand off my shoulder. I squeezed my eyes shut; I knew they would hate me for this.
"I'm so sorry Bella. It was an honest mistake. I thought you'd left it here by accident."
"So…the phone was in the car during the accident?" Bella spoke slowly.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Jasper asked me the one question I'd been dreading.
"I just thought you'd hate me for it. I thought it would be better if you thought you'd lost it and then you could move on."
Bella gasped. I heard her.
"You were willing to lie to me? You were willing to pretend that I'd lost it? To think that there was no way of getting Edward back?"
Jasper stepped away from me and towards Bella. I knew then that they both hated me.
"I'm so sorry! It was a horrible mistake! I should have told you the truth! I just thought you'd blame me!"
"Well you were right about one thing. I do blame you. Not because you gave the phone to Edward, that was a mistake, I get that, but because you lied to me about it! You made me think there was no way to get Edward back just because you didn't want to admit you'd given the phone to Edward! You made me believe I'd lost the phone somewhere in this house, when you knew where it was all along! It's ironic that while trying to avoid me being mad at you, you mad me so so mad at you." Bella glared at me, and left the room.
I looked at Jasper. "Jasper?"
"You could have told me. You said it was still in the house. You lied to me, to your best friend." He shook his head and walked out the door after Bella.
I sank down onto the bed, and heard the sound of the car driving away.
JPOV
"You alright?" I asked Bella.
She nodded. I slowed the car down slightly, I knew she still wasn't completely comfortable in cars after the accident.
"Where are we going?" I asked her, though I knew the answer.
"To the place where we crashed. The phone may have been thrown out of the car when we crashed."
I nodded, it made sense.
I pulled up, and stopped the car. I got out, and went round to Bella's side. She was still sitting in the car looking around.
"I know you don't want to be here, but we should probably look around and then we'll leave." She looked up at me and smiled gently.
"Thank you, for coming with me here."
I smiled and she got out and hugged me. She let go and slowly walked around, the road was quiet, and there hadn't been many cars here since the accident. Suddenly Bella fell to her knees and started crying softly. I rushed to her side and knelt down. She was stroking the road, I looked and I saw some dried blood, probably Edward's. I took her by the shoulders, and lifted her up.
"Come on, let's look around, and then go."
She nodded and got up. We started to look around in the nearby surroundings. After about 30mins Bella called me over. I rushed to her, and saw that in her hand she was holding her phone. There was a big crack through the screen and it was covered in mud, but it seemed to be working alright.
Bella's hand was shaking.
"I can't do it. I can't. I'll hear his voice and start crying. I promised I would stop messing with the past."
I gently took the phone from her, and scrolled down the contacts, hovering above Edward's number.
"It's your choice." I said to her.
She looked at the phone, then she looked at me, then she sat down in the grass on the side of the road.
"What about Jacob?"
I wasn't expecting that. She must really love him too.
"If it's meant to be…"
She sighed. "I know. If it's meant to be we'll end up together some other way. I just feel really bad about how it ended. I didn't even get to say bye. He just left."
"Do you want to talk to him? Before you ring Edward?"
"I don't know. I just want to tell him the truth, about everything."
"The truth?" I asked her, slightly confused.
"About how I went into the future."
"But he already knows that."
"No. I want to tell Jake from the past. If I explain everything to him, how I love Edward, he wouldn't have forced me to choose in the future. I could make him understand, and we could stay friends."
I hesitated. "Are you sure that's a good idea? I mean, telling the people in the past that you went to the future, you haven't even told Edward that, remember? You said it might mess things up, change something."
Bella sighed, and then looked at me. "I know, but I've been thinking. What would it change really? If Jake knew that I went to the future he would still wait for me, if anything it would make things better as he wouldn't worry so much. And I would tell him not to tell anyone else, so it shouldn't change anything really."
I thought about it, and decided her logic was right. What would it change? If Jake knew where she went, he wouldn't worry about her being kidnapped, or try to search for her. For a brief moment I wished Alice was here so that I could ask her opinion, but she wasn't and I could make my own decisions without her. I grinned and handed her the phone.
"All yours."
She took it from me, and kissed me on the cheek.
"Thanks Jasper. For everything." Then she dialed the number.
BPOV
The phone rang twice, and then I heard Jake's voice.
"Yeah yeah I remember, bring everyone on the 6th to Alice's house."
I smiled, hearing Jake's cheerful voice.
"No it's not about that this time. I want to tell you something."
"Sure Bells, anything."
And then I told him my whole story, from the club, hiding from Mike, to the car accident, to the ultimatum he offered me, to making the call to bring Edward back. He didn't say anything for a few minutes.
"Jake? Jake?"
"Uh…yeah I'm here."
"Well? Say something."
"Wow. It's just a lot to take in."
"I know."
"So you're in the future? And Edward's dead?"
"…Yeah"
"But you're going to bring him back?"
"Yeah."
"And we kissed?"
"Well…yes."
"But you're not going to remember it and I'm going to leave because you chose him over me?"
"But that's why I'm telling you this. You're not going to leave."
"Why shouldn't I leave Bells? You chose him over me!"
"But you…you know I love him, and I need him back, just remember when you come to this point in your future, just don't make me choose."
Again he was silent.
"So there's no hope for us if you make that call?"
"I'm sorry Jake, but it's always been him, it'll always be him."
"No I'm sorry."
"What for?"
"I can't let you make that phone call Bella."
Now it was my turn to be stunned. What did he mean?
"What?"
"I'm sorry Bells, I just love you too much. And I know you love me, you just have to give me a chance, and that won't happen as long as Edward's around."
And then he hung up.
I stared at the phone in horror and then rushed to Jasper. I quickly told him what happened.
"Well he can't stop me making the phone call…right? Right?" I asked him worriedly.
"I don't know Bella. He can't stop you making the call, but he can stop Edward from listening to you."
"What? How?"
"Well he could do anything really, he could steal Edward's phone? He could tell Edward you were forced to say that. He could tell Edward to drive on that day anyway. He could tell him it would be really romantic. He could make sure Edward forgot and drove on that day."
"But he couldn't! If Edward chose to drive me on that day, I would tell him not to."
"You wouldn't know by then. You'd think it was just a normal date. The accident wouldn't have happened yet."
"No!" I yelled.
Jasper stepped back in shock.
"I will not let Jake kill Edward! He wouldn't do that…"
"Bella, I think he would."
"No!"
I frantically dialed Edward's number. I heard it ring..and ring..and ring.
"He's not picking up! Why isn't he picking up?"
Jasper looked at me with anger.
"It's Jacob! He's done something."
I sank down and stared at my phone.
"Jake..why would you?"
For the first time since Bella's accident, Alice felt guilty. She hadn't meant for any of this to happen, but it did, and though she felt awful and hated herself, she didn't regret it. She probably would have done it again if she had the choice. But poor Bella, poor Jasper. Why did she do it?
She got out of the car and knocked the door, it opened and she saw the one person she needed right now, the one person who knew what she was going through.
She didn't realize that she's been crying, but he wiped the tears away from her face gently. She collapsed into his arms, and he hugged her tightly.
"We have to tell Jasper. I can't do this to him anymore. He's already mad at me anyway." Alice sobbed.
He let go of her and looked her in the face.
"It'll be alright. He'll understand."
Alice nodded but she could see the uncertainty in his face.
"And…what about us?"
He sighed. "I don't know. I need to think."
Alice nodded. "We won't tell them until we figure out what's going on between us first."
He nodded in agreement." Yes. Fair enough."
Alice allowed herself a small smile, as she leaned forward and kissed Edward.
Edward shut the door behind Alice as she left. He still didn't know how this happened. The last 5 weeks had gone so fast. He still remembered waking up in the hospital, Alice had been there. She's told him Bella was in a coma from the accident. He had been devastated. He had blamed himself for putting his darling Bella in danger.
Alice had been wonderful, she had comforted him and been there for him. He remembered it so clearly, the moment where for a brief period of time, he'd forgotten Bella.
Alice sat down next to Edward on the hospital bed.
"Any change?" Edward asked hopefully.
"Nope. She's still in a coma, the doctors say it could me months till she wakes up." Alice replied.
Edward sighed. Bella has been in a coma for over a week, and there were no signs of improvement.
Alice held his hand, and squeezed it gently.
"Jasper's with her now, she'll be fine Edward." Alice smiled reassuringly.
"It's my fault she's in a coma now though Alice. I shouldn't have been distracted while driving. Now she's in a coma, and who knows when she'll wake up?"
Alice shook her head and turned to look at him.
"She'll wake up, Edward. I know she will."
"But what if she blames me for endangering her life? What if she leaves me?"
Alice sighed and held Edward's face in her hands.
"She won't break up with you. Who would? You're perfect." Alice smiled gently.
And before either of them knew it, they were kissing. Edward pulled away hurriedly.
"I'm sorry. That was my fault. I'll take all the blame."
Alice giggled and raised her eyebrow cheekily.
"Come here, silly." She pushed him down on the bed and began kissing him again.
Edward shook his head, and snapped out of his thoughts. He'd wanted to leave it at a kiss, he'd never meant to…sleep with her. And what about Bella? He still loved her so much, but she'd hate him for it. It had been Alice's idea to pretend he was dead, but now he regretted it so much. The pain he'd caused Bella when she found out he'd died.
APOV
I returned home, just before Jasper and Bella arrived. Bella looked like she'd been crying.
"Bella?" I asked timidly.
Bella smiled at me through her tears.
"It's ok Alice. I forgive you."
As Bella hugged me, I felt guiltier than ever, and I realized we could never tell Jasper or Bella. I would break it off with Edward and I'd go back to Jasper. But now they thought he was dead? They were trying to mess with the past. We'd have to tell them Edward was still alive in some other way, without mentioning out…infidelity.
"Hey. Sorry I got kinda mad at you earlier." Jasper grinned at me, and leaned down to kiss me. I loved him so much, but with Edward it had been different…passionate, like we were breaking the rules.
I would just discuss it with Edward later; we'd find a way around it.
Bella told me what Jacob did, and I was glad, though I hid it from her. Thankfully Jake was actually solving some of my problems.
"What should I do Alice?" Bella asked me.
I was brought back to the present with a jolt.
"Uh…Maybe you should just wait for a while, you know?"
Bella frowned. "What would that achieve?"
"Maybe it'll give us time to think of a better plan?"
Bella nodded. "Alright, I'm going to my bedroom, I'm quite tired."
I hugged her and she went towards the stairs. I sighed. Yes! This was all going well. And then the doorbell rang. Bella stopped.
"Maybe it's Rose?"
I nodded, still deep in thought about how well this had gone.
Bella went over to open the door. I wasn't really paying attention, I was too happy, if Bella was willing to wait a bit, Edward and I could come up with a better plan. We could make this work.
I distantly heard Bella scream. I was brought back to the present with a jolt. I rushed over to the door, where she was standing. She looked like she was about to faint. Jasper held her, and stopped her form collapsing. I looked to the door to see what had made her so stunned. Edward was standing there.
"Hi, Bella."
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